refugee from lemmy.sdf.org
to give a more local public group and mute LongFast, etc?
Our local MT longfast channel was infested with traffic from abandoned nodes. One of them was relaying MQTT traffic from other continents. We ended up going to MC but I suspect making a local channel would have worked fine also.
for the first time someone has contributed to the code. This may seem trivial, but it is important to me
I’d definitely feel good about that!
I just don’t make a habit of visiting any particular website to read it. That’s what the threadiverse is for.
Alternatively: that’s what RSS is for.
Loving the e-ink screen
My favorite node is an e-ink e290 (heltec). Unfortunately
I’m a noob and I prefer… Debian?
The beauty of linux is you get to run whatever you prefer. Have fun and be productive in the way you like. :-)
In the past I’ve mainly used XFCE or openbox because of my old hardware. A couple years ago I picked a Debian+MATE image to install on a fresh box and have been using it by default since then.
None of that “touchscreen UI uber alles” BS.
said friend didn’t know you could just pull his location from a map by name
a couple thoughts
I’m curious if they’re then required to use their meshtastics in HAM mode
No, but they can if they want to use the freqs and power.
I run normal nodes but might set up a MT ham node under my callsign just to see if anything pops up.
this might be a route to secure communication after they ban VPNs
might also be an excellent time to familiarize oneself with ssh tunneling
Want to set up a powerful
The solar node won’t be more powerful in the “radiated transmission” sense, but will have greater reach because it’s outside. And height is might as meshfolk say.
solar rooftop node/repeater/router
As others have correctly advised, nrf52-based nodes are power-sippers. This makes them a good fit for solar nodes.
I see some folks on eBay selling $200 home built solar stations. Could anyone recommend any good options for this kind of thing?
I bought one of these from PeakMesh, an etsy/ebay seller. <$100 . Very happy with design, build, performance, and the entire buying experience. I usually prefer to DIY everything but this node checked all my boxes at a sane price.
I’ve run it as a Meshtastic client base and now as Meshcore repeater after bigger dogs on my local mesh went that direction.
trigger warning - the remainder of the post contains references to reddit which may cause apoplexy in some viewers. :-)
The seller is active on reddit as M-growingdesign. He made a post about this particular design in /r/meshtastic. It was basically marketing but there’s a good bit of discussion in the thread, including how he made design decisions.
I just want to buy something and screw it up
I see we are brothers from different mothers :-P
If the ads for a feed are in a predictable position (like first two minutes, last minute, whatever) one can use sox or similar to trim the file at that point to effectively remove the ads.
But like some of the other commenters here, when the podcast is available by patreon I use that feed and avoid the whole problem.
I own and use a Microsoft Zune HD
Seems like a good enough reason to me!
I updated both my desktop and a headless server without issue.
I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.
So for now I’ve swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium’s RAM usage stays sane.